Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure, Terraform)
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Note: This role requires flexibility to relocate to Abu Dhabi (UAE) for onsite client requirements.
About the Role:NorthBay, a leading AWS Premier Partner, is seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure, Terraform) to join its growing cloud and AI engineering team. This role is ideal for candidates with a strong foundation in cloud DevOps practices and a passion for implementing scalable MLOps solutions.
Key Responsibilities:- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
- Manage and scale container orchestration environments using Kubernetes, including experience with larger production-grade clusters
- Ensure cloud infrastructure is optimized, secure, and monitored effectively
- Collaborate with data science teams to support ML model deployment and operationalization
- Implement MLOps best practices, including model versioning, deployment strategies (e.g., blue-green), monitoring (data drift, concept drift), and experiment tracking (e.g., MLflow)
- Build and maintain automated ML pipelines to streamline model lifecycle management
- 8 to 12 years of experience in DevOps and/or MLOps roles
- Proficient in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Strong expertise in Terraform, including managing and scaling infrastructure across large environments
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in larger clusters, including workload distribution, autoscaling, and cluster monitoring
- Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and microservices architecture
- Solid grasp of cloud networking, security best practices, and observability
- Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python
- Experience with MLflow, TFX, Kubeflow, or SageMaker Pipelines
- Knowledge of model performance monitoring and ML system reliability
- Familiarity with AWS MLOps stack or equivalent tools on Azure/GCP
Top Skills
What We Do
NorthBay is an AWS Premier Partner focused on Database & Application migrations, data & analytics, DevOps & DataOps, application modernization and ML/Ai.
Our practice areas include big data and analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and database migrations.
